• NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    France on the verge of an extreme right takeover

    Germanys AfD party making significant gains

    Substantial foreign influence in the legislative and executive branches of US Politics

    By all means, please continue to ignore the signs. “It can’t happen here”, right?

    • SleezyDizasta@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      Those parties aren’t gaining ground because of Russia. Russia is definitely an influence, but they’re not the reason these parties are winning. They’re gaining ground because the establishment parties are failing people and these parties are the only alternative they have. We’ve seen such parties win in Italy, Switzerland, Sweden, Finland, etc but nothing really changed foreign policy wise.